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Lesson
The success of the government anti-crisis plan in terms of maintaining economic growth and protecting vulnerable groups validated the effectiveness of the government’s approach. The reforms it promoted proved successful in achieving the government’s goals of protecting vulnerable citizens, ensuring food security, and maintaining employment levels while promoting gender equality and climate and disaster resilience.

Project Number: 56147-001
Project Name: Building Resilience with Active Countercyclical Expenditures Program
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The success of the government anti-crisis plan in terms of maintaining economic growth and protecting vulnerable groups validated the effectiveness of the government’s approach. The highly pro-poor, socially inclusive measures proved successful in achieving the government’s goal to protect vulnerable populations, ensure food security and price stability, and preserve jobs.

Project Number: 56150-001
Project Name: Building Resilience with Active Countercyclical Expenditures Program
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Support cannot be directed to the most vulnerable in a crisis in the absence of a social protection system that can be utilized or adapted for this purpose—which provides an additional reason for working with developing member countries to establish and strengthen such systems.

Project Number: 54346-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Rapid Response Program
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An innovative approach is needed to encourage the government in implementing critical reforms, but the approach needs to be culturally sensitive. The program shows that a reform associated with a wage bill is difficult to implement. Layoffs or significant cuts in overtime payment have social ramifications and need to be dealt with sensitively, especially when there are limited alternative employment opportunities.

Project Number: 55016-001
Project Name: Economic Recovery Support Program
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A social protection system needs to evolve in line with changes in the socioeconomic conditions of a country. This program supported social protection system reform, requiring the government's continued commitment for sustainable implementation. A key lesson highlighted by this project is for social protection systems to continue transforming in the face of demographic changes and urbanization and to be shock-responsive.

Project Number: 55041-001, 55041-003
Project Name: Strengthening Social Resilience Program (Subprograms 1 and 2)
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Building systems and organizational capacity is critical to the success of social assistance programs. Moving beyond a pilot to a national CCTprogram requires establishing project management structures, robust systems for information management, accountability mechanisms, and significant human resources. Despite impressive growth, the Philippines' CCT program faced challenges as it expanded nationally.

Project Number: 43407-013
Project Name: Social Protection Support Project
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The TCR lesson is useful. Capacity development activities should look to identify opportunities to partner with other donors. This TA partnership with FAO (handbook and MOOC implementation) generated greater and more cost-effective results than would otherwise have been possible.

Project Number: 49342-001
Project Name: Implementing ICT Tools to Improve Data Collection and Management of National Surveys in Support of the Sustainable Development Goals
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Procurement, governance, and implementation is a relatively significant issue in Bangladesh, which is of concern to other multilateral and bilateral donors as well. Exploring co_x005F_x0002_financing and co-sharing opportunities could offer a possibility to work with other donors so that capacity building can be done at the scale and go deeper into systemic issues in the given sectors.

Project Number: 45376-001
Project Name: Capacity Building for Portfolio Management
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Agreed. A useful lesson is the importance of partnering with other knowledge institutions to tap expertise and efficiently use financial resources.

Project Number: 47146-001
Project Name: Macroeconomic Modelling for Improved Economic Assessment
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External NDF cofinancing and GCF climate finance partnerships were referenced here, and lessons provided were very broad, and not supported by evidence in the TCR. Internal ADB partnerships were not mentioned in the TCR, which would be important for encouraging broader adoption and sustainability of respective DMCs’ TA efforts via the country dialogue processes.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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Strong in-country partnerships provide opportunities for leveraged action. In this TA, ADB was an active partner within the 6-Banks group and together they undertook joint policy dialogue with government and shared best international practices, likely having an impact greater than ADB acting alone.

Project Number: 48183-001
Project Name: Improving Portfolio Performance and Aid Management
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Application of the One ADB approach from concept stage throughout implementation can enhance the value of a TA project through complementary competencies and perspectives (as was the case in this TA through the PRC resident mission, Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department, and Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department).

Project Number: 51021-001
Project Name: Reforming the System of Personal Income Tax and Social Security Contributions
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Collaboration with other expert groups on tax policy and administration to attain a similar objective could be an effective way to ensure wider knowledge sharing at more efficient cost through the pooling of resources

Project Number: 50060-001
Project Name: Strengthening Tax Policy and Administration Capacity to Mobilize Domestic Resources
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Continue the partnership with other international agencies like FAO so as not to duplicate work being done in the pilot DMCs. Sharing of resources with other agencies would also lead to an expansion of benefits to more DMCs, as witnessed within this TA.

Project Number: 49342-001
Project Name: Implementing ICT Tools to Improve Data Collection and Management of National Surveys in Support of the Sustainable Development Goals
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Partnership with institutions, like the International Monetary Fund and those from developed counterparts like the Bank of Italy, has enabled us to work together and tap relevant expertise.

Project Number: 47146-001
Project Name: Macroeconomic Modelling for Improved Economic Assessment
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